¶ Axiom
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Axiom:
“I find almost all the axioms of mathematics to be experimentally nondemonstrable. The dictionary defines axioms as self-evident truths. Post-Greek electron-microscopy and Heisenberg’s indeterminism show that the seemingly self-evident is always superficial and utterly deceptive and that truth is at best inexact. Pure mathematics’ axiomatic concepts of straight lines are completely invalid.”
¶ Citations
- NASA Speech, p.44, Jun’66
